I work with executives, leaders, change makers, and individuals to navigate the trials and tribulations of running organizations, maintaining healthy relationships, making sense of loss, enacting their dreams, and living with power and purpose.

There are subconscious ways that individuals “leak” power, leaving them feeling tight on time, emotionally drained, and out of alignment with themselves. Through transformational, intuitive, and practical coaching techniques honed over a decade with master teachers, I create a container for my clients to see the ways that they are creating inefficiencies and integrate the root issue so that they can live more fully and authentically.

We would be a good fit if you:

• Are ready to do your inner work and look directly at your challenges
• Need someone to hold you accountable and support you through transition, challenge, or leveling-up
• Want to grow your capacity to hold multiple perspectives and make sense of complexity
• Are looking to find a source of perpetual inner stability
• Want to improve your skills for dealing with conflict & building innovative teams
• Are wanting to integrate & strengthen both rational thinking and intuitive capacity
• Desire to have bigger impact and embody your mission more fully

If you'd like to get a sense of what it would be like to work together with this level of personal support, please drop me a note using the form below. Cheers,

Spencer

Teams and organizations can get bogged down by day-to-day hustle and forgo important time and space for leaders to align, clarify processes, and build deeper organizational capacity. We all need space to air grievances, sort out disagreements, give/receive feedback, train new skills, and realign culture to keep moving forward for work that matters. As an intuitive facilitator and coach, I specialize in creating space for leaders and teams to properly identify where there is tension and unwind this through a balance of authentic relating and developing strategic updates to processes & structures.

This work may involve one-on-one discussion, team facilitation, mediation between conflicting parties, or skill training workshops based on the specific organizational needs at hand. We customize interventions based on initial conversation, goals, and project scope.

Common engagements:

• Leadership Alignment Sessions - Bi-weekly or Monthly 
  • Clarify strategy & direction amongst founders/executive team in a facilitated space
  • Work out interpersonal tension and deepen trust
  • Slow down to identify organizational gaps
  • Map skills and capabilities that will be necessary for culture to scale
  • Reinvigorate team with discussion around what matters most

• Team Trainings - Weekly, Bi-Weekly, or Monthly
  • Builds coherency and efficiency through a regular practice space involving an entire team or a whole organization's staff
  • Content training on specific topics such as:
    • Effective Communication
    • Creating Feedback-Rich Cultures
    • Key Skills for Self-Organization
    • Harnessing Conflict to Drive Innovation
    • High-performance Teaming
    • Working with Difference
    • Accessing Flow States for Elite Performance
    • + Custom topics - Depending on needs

• Off-Sites / Retreats - Quarterly or Annual
  
  • 1-3 day facilitated team experiences
  • In-person and/or virtual
  • Outdoors (in nature) and/or indoors (retreat space)
  • Deep-dive to build skills in a live setting, deepen trust, and generate institutional alignment
  • Co-created for organizational needs around a variety of topics including: skill-training, culture building, etc.

In order to address the 'meta-crisis' that we find ourselves in globally, we need new spaces of practice for individuals to develop the skills that will help us make the transition to a new kind of planetary civilization that offers dignified lives to all beings.

The kinds of skills traditional leadership courses support such as execution, prioritization, project management, strategy development, or even emotional intelligence are necessary but insufficient in a landscape of culture wars, exponential technology growth, and climate collapse. We need skills such as sense-making in a variegated developmental terrain, precise subtle intelligence in intersubjective spaces for effective decision-making, and consistent access to internal states of spaciousness in order to free the personality structure to be of optimal service to the whole.

The Enliven Academy is a space of personal growth, professional development, purpose clarification, and camaraderie amongst high-functioning individuals from different backgrounds to work towards these aims. It is an intentional, tight-knit, cohort style learning group for advanced techniques of creating group coherence by using our own cohort’s dynamics as the material for learning and practice. Personal issues will surface and the intention is to help participants clarify their own learning by being a part of the process.

The format:

• Container of 6 months together:
  • Once/month in-person weekend gathering outdoors in a natural setting -- mainly in California -- rotating through mountain, coastal, desert, and forest.
  • Once/month online workshop to deepen practice w/ relevant guest teachers.
  • Once/month optional connection in a small study group through the course.

The in-person meetings for the Academy are conducted outdoors in nature. There is a different kind of mindset that takes place when we step in into the outdoors together. Embodiment and land connection is an essential aspect of our work together. Each month we take to the hills, mountains, forest, or coast to draw from a different set of inspiration, symbols, and feelings tones that help us tap into different parts of ourselves.

Skill and focus areas that we cover throughout the year:

• Attuning to and working with group dynamics including communication and attuning to subtle energy.
• Spotting and navigating differing values and worldviews in the room.
• Creating the conditions for innovation to emerge.
• Developing a meditative or pure awareness perspective to give space to what needs to happen in a group without judgement.
• Techniques for integrating shadow material and trauma that inevitably show up.
• Honing skills as a conflict mediator to navigate disagreement and tension.
• Working with hierarchy, power, and identity without getting stuck in the mire.
• Refining intuitive and somatic awareness for creative intervention in conjunction with rational approaches.

Please use the form below to apply for the next cohort.

Next Academy Cohort: November 2022